Istituto Di Cultura - Londra

The Italian Cultural Institute in London is pleased to host the exhibition “Dafne and the Butterflies”, by Italian artist and painter Elisa Montessori in the Project Room. The 14 works displayed belong to a private collection and are for the first time open to the public on this occasion. Coherent with the res...

Trio Bobo was formed in 2002 thanks to the collaboration between Faso and Christian Meyer (respectively bass player and drummer in the band Elio e le storie tese) and renowned guitarist Alessio Menconi, one of the most famous jazz guitarist in Italy (past collaborations include Paolo Conte, Franco Cerri, Billy Cobham and...

12 talks on the Italian language“The most beautiful in the world” is supposed to be a supermodel and yet in Italy the expression is more often than not used to define Italian language. Is Italian truly the most beautiful language in the world? It is commonplace, due to either italophilia or nationalism, but is...

Incontro del circolo di lettura, condotto da Paolo Nelli   Gli incontri autunnali del circolo di lettura sono dedicati agli anni settanta nella letteratura di oggi.   Gli anni settanta, per molte ragioni, hanno segnato la storia d'Italia e oggi, anche in ambito letterario, si assiste a un’attenz...

A special FAI UK event: the film buffs among our audience will be pleased to know that, contrary to what Luchino Visconti thought, TOSCA, the film based on Sardou’s play, still exists and it will be screened here - with a snag, in Spanish (with Italian subtitles). But we are lucky to be able to show it at all. T...

The fifth and last talk of the series 'Project and Destiny: Reflections on design and architecture in Italy today'. Weaving Architecture summarises a way of thinking stemming from Benedetta Tagliabue and EMBT’s experimental work through the years, starting with the wicker Spanish Pavilion of Expo 2010 Shanghai. Progres...

To mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day (27 January) Salon Italia - In Italian with English SubtitlesIntroduction and post screening discussion with Nick Walker Director: Andrea Frazzi and Antonio FrazziWriters: Lorenza Mazzetti (novel), Suso Cecchi D'Amico (screenplay)Cast Cast: Isabella Rossellini, Jeroen...

Presentation of the book by Lorenzo CiccarelliWith Richard Rogers, moderated by Thomas Weaver This book explores Renzo Piano’s formative years, before the major achievement of the Centre Pompidou. The striking success of an architect little more than thirty years old in the famous 1971 international competition has ...

The Rise of Europe's Far-right. Are fascism and authoritarianism returning in modern-day Europe? A lecture by Paolo Berizzi Chaired by Andrea Mammone[BOOK NOW] Paolo Berizzi is a writer, reporter and journalist. He writes for the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. In 2017 he was assigned police protection after several...

Gaia Servadio and Stefano Jossa talk about Giovanni Battista Belzoni, protagonist of Gaia Servadio's latest book "L'italiano piu' famoso del mondo" (Bompiani) It must have been odd to meet the man whose talent, according to The Times newspaper, was that of being ‘The Most famous Italian in the World”. Also...

Presentation of the book by Lisa Ginzburg The author will be in conversation with Marco Mancassola Mary Shelley – the daughter of a feminist philosopher and of a political philosopher – starts to write as a game, in 1816, the novel of the new Prometheus: the story of Frankenstein and of the monster blamed...